The Great CAFE Stick-up - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. And that, dear taxpayer, would be you.

A furious two weeks of Big Auto, Big Union, and Big Green closed door meetings and backdoor lobbying brought pressure on the Obama administration’s plan to double the fuel economy of American cars — and effectively eliminate the gas engine by — 2025.

After the dust settles, EPA’s new so-called CAFE standards will be riddled with loopholes, the auto industry and Detroit unions will get massive federal subsidies to build cars consumers don’t want#…#and the taxpayer will be poorer and have less product choice.

The Carbon Sense Coalition » The Five Point Plan to Kill the Economy with High Cost Electricity

Climate will still change no matter how many wind temples we build to the Global Warming god.

Inhofe bill would shine sunlight on regulation costs « » Print The Daily Caller

Environmental regulations drain hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. economy each year, and it mostly goes unnoticed by the public.

But proposed legislation from Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe could make the cost of such government interference more transparent.

“Everybody here is focusing on spending and taxes,” Inhofe said, “but what most people don’t realize is the cost of regulation is just as much as the cost of all of the taxes … it’s just less detectable.”

The legislation, known as the CARE Act, would require the U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency to publicize — in terms of jobs and money — the direct economic costs of the regulations they publish under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.